Chapter 9 Summary

Bud is saddened to not see his pretend-family in the food line, where he had once shared a brown sugar moment with them. He eats and moves on to the library, where the new librarian recognizes Bud and gives a special Civil War book to him. He is wondering where the other librarian is, since she was usually the one that helped him with anything he needed when he visited. The "new" librarian remembers he used to always ask Ms. Hill, the former librarian friend of his, for the special books with war pictures in them. He reasons that these were the only books with very interesting pictures. She realizes he has not eaten and gives him her lunch.

Bud has a flashback to Billy Burns, the bully from the Home. Billy used to argue that he was too good for the Home...